Below you can see a snippet of the script I analysed.
The script I analysed was series 1 episode 4 of the BBC television series, Luther. I got the script from the BBC Writers room website in the script library, this is also a very useful website to send your scripts into as the regulators read everything sent to you and you might even get a contract if they like your work. Below you can see a snippet of the script. Here you can see due to a change of events the character starts to develop.
Using a "(beat)" can also direct the actor, the term is used to make the actor pause before reading their lines, this gives it a dramatic emphasis.[2]
There are also three different types of description for a character, Inner presence, Outer presence and Context. Inner presence is describing the character through the dialogue, for example, a person in a television programme could say something like "Chemo didn't go well today" or "I'm in remission" and we would automatically know from the dialogue that they are a cancer patient or ill, if they just downright say "I've had lung cancer for about a year now" for no reason, like no one mentioned it in the first place, it would be expositioning. Outer presence is how they describe a character through the action line, for example, if it says something like, 'she was pale, lost all her hair and is practically skin and bones, the cancer was getting more aggresive' We would know that they are suffering from an illness. The rules for expositioning don't apply as much with the aciton lines as the actors are not saying those lines in the show, screen writers usually exposition a lot in the action line so the director knows what he is doing. Context is describing a character through the things he says or the text in the action line, an example of his would be lets say a character walks on screen and says "Man, airports are a lot different in Egypt then here" We would know through the context that they either came back from Egypt on a holiday, or maybe they orignated from there. The action line would most likely determine that by saying something like 'Her skin was a lot tanner and her hair more bleached than the last time John saw her getting on the plane." We could then determine through the context that she was on a holiday or a business trip.
The First short was called 'She's A Fox', it is based in the 80's and it is about one boy's struggle to get the girl of his dreams, who is currently going out with his arch enemy. It was a homage to the classic teen comedies of the eighties and was filled with clichés which gave the film a more nostalgic feel. I thought the story line was compelling and there were some brilliant shot taken in this film.
The second short was a spin off of the movie currently in cinema's, 'Gravity'. (which by the way was an absolutely amazing film!) It follows the story of Aningaaq, an Eskimo who picked up the transmission of an orbiting space craft carrying the films main character. This film would only make sense if you have seen the movie Gravity, it really brought some clarity on one of the final scenes, it was really well done and, like I said before, it would be hard to appreciate this short without seeing the movie first.
Here are the results to my questionnaire I sent out:
As you can see the majority of people that took this public survey were aged between 18 an 24, this is probably because this is the main group of people that go on the internet.[4]
The majority of people who participated were male
As you can see most people were open to the idea of this short film
The main thing that influenced my ending was that people would prefer to see a big climax at the end, after seeing the results on my second draft I changed the ending entirely to satisfy the target demographic.
All of the film will be shot inside of a ground floor flat, this is to emphasise the loneliness of this character, If my script gets selected then I would volunteer to film inside of my flat so the location is not a problem.).[5]
I researched films like 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Law Abiding Citizen', films that involve a home invasion so I can better educate myself on the mind of a psychopath and how they would go about plotting a home invasion. My short film was inspired by the film Joyride, which also involves a man being tied up and his struggle to escape the enemy.My character, Dave the psychopath is inspired by Christopher Eccleston's character in the Danny Boyle film, Shallow Grave in the sense that he is a crazed murderer, but he is very calm and collective, this puts emphasis on the fact that he is a psychopathic murderer.Sources: (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/?ref_=nv_sr_1 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111149/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
Bibliography
1. http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com2. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/luther-s1-ep4.pdf
3. http://www.shortoftheweek.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLR1yCvu498
4 .https://www.surveymonkey.com/
5. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/?ref_=nv_sr_1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111149/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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